LSU tries to kill problems with compliance

11:35 PM,
Sep. 14, 2013

LSU head coach Les Miles tries to hold back his team as they take the field in the 2011 Cowboys Classic. LSU's compliance department also does its job to hold back potential problems like the ones being reported about Oklahoma State.

Written by

Glenn Guilbeau
gguilbeau@gannett.com

At a football school with the size and brand of an LSU, one would not expect an underling athletic department administrator to virtually pull a 6-foot-6, 300-pound defensive tackle expected to play off the bus to an away game.

But that is what happened to current Saints defensive tackle Akiem Hicks when he was a junior college signee at LSU in September of 2009 out of Sacramento City College in California.

Miriam Segar, an associate athletic director for student services at the time, played basketball at LSU under Sue Gunter and apparently learned how to not take too many chances with the ball. ...